Category: News

Darkfire Bundle to be Sold in Stores

Fortnite Battle Royale is a free to play game but that has not stopped Epic from making billions from it. Epic has announced the Darkfire Bundle which be sold in stores this next holiday season. The interesting thing about this bundle is that the games developer Epic Games has partnered with Warner Brothers on this cosmetics bundle. There is a claimed $80 value to the pack but remember kids this is just pixels on a screen how much could it really be worth? the in-store price will be set at US$29.99.

The release date is the 5th of November 2019. It will include 3 Legendary dual-wield pickaxes, 3 Legendary Back Blings, 3 new Legendary skins, 3 Epic Wraps and one new emote. In total there are 13 new items making this the biggest Fortnite bundle so far. The bundles are console only for now and will be available on PS4, Xbox One and the Switch.

Why are they Nerfing the B.R.U.T.E ?

The B.R.U.T.E is a mech that was introduced a few patches ago and was insanely overpowered. This was shown when Harrison Chang AKA “Psalm” who came second place in the Fortnite Solos World Cup used the B.R.U.T.E devastate the field. He got to a high vantage point then proceeded to take out players from across the map.

What are the nerfs to B.R.U.T.E?

Decreased the maximum amount of rockets fired by the B.R.U.T.E. in a single charge from 10 to 6.

Decreased the rate at which the rockets are fired from the B.R.U.T.E. by 56%.

Our goal with these changes is to increase the back and forth between the users of the B.R.U.T.E. and the players they face. These changes allow the players on the receiving end of the missile volley to have more time to react and protect themselves.

Decreased the radius of the B.R.U.T.E.’s rocket explosion by 42%.

Our goal with this change is to improve consistency and understanding around focused barrages of missiles. B.R.U.T.E.s will continue to be a strong option against structures, but less lethal against players.

Increased the dash cooldown from 3 seconds to 5 seconds.

The previous dash cooldown not only increased the B.R.U.T.E.’s mobility, but also made the B.R.U.T.E.s a harder target to hit from distance than we’d like. The adjustment here reduces the ability to close gaps quickly while in the B.R.U.T.E. while also increasing the ability to land shots on target for players facing the B.R.U.T.E.

Decreased the velocity gained from boosting while in air by 33%.

We want to reduce a B.R.U.T.E.’s ability to engage and disengage at long distances to encourage a more strategic approach to an encounter. In general we hope to shift B.R.U.T.E.s away from being highly mobile and put more emphasis on their already defensive nature.

The B.R.U.T.E. no longer grants materials to the driver and passenger when stomping or dashing through the environment.

Note: This change should roll out shortly following the other changes.

Our goal is to add more tension between being in and out of a B.R.U.T.E. as well as reduce instances where players can farm faster than intended without exposing themselves to danger.

Previously, the early stages of a match were guaranteed a minimum amount of B.R.U.T.E.s. We’d like to provide a little more variance to that experience so that matches don’t always play out the same way. The overall average number of B.R.U.T.E.s per game is reduced slightly.

Decreased the material cost of using the gunner’s overshield from 200 to 75.

Our goal is to further emphasize use of materials for positive defensive benefit.

Junk rift temporarily removed

Increased the Health of the B.R.U.T.E from 1000 to 1250.

With the above changes, users of the B.R.U.T.E. need to play a bit more strategic than before, so we want to give a little bit longer of a window to do so.

Other changes

Epic games had temporarily disabled the Junk Rift for the FNCS tournament and Arena playlists until the 10.20 update. the reason they are doing this is because of an Audio bug that occured when the portal was high above the player.

So what is new in V10.10 Content Update?

Dusty Depot is back but don’t get your hopes up it is only back as a prefab in creative mode. The full list of Prefabs and galleries is:

5 New Prefabs

Dusty Depot Blue Warehouse

Dusty Depot Gray Warehouse

Dusty Depot Red Warehouse

Dusty Depot Visitor Warehouse

Dusty Diner

2 New Galleries

Dusty Depot & Diner Gallery

Dusty Depot & Diner Prop Gallery

What is new in Fortnite Save the World?

There is a new rocket launcher. The V6 Rocket launcher which is a 6 shot rocket launcher and part of the Rat Rod Weapon set. It does not consume ammo but has very low durability.

A new quest has appeared so make sure you run Hit the Road to activate your weekly quest!

There have been some bug fixes:

Mission details now correctly update when switching between different Missions with a controller.

Resolved an issue where objective information was not displayed for the current Mission.

Added some information that was missing from the Command and Armory tabs.

Fixed an issue where the map was not loading properly after changing tabs.

Game no longer crashes when launching a Mission through the “Play Now” button in the quest log.

The Record Dash quest no longer states to find five records instead of four when in a full party.

What has changed in Fortnite Battle Royale mode?

This is what most people are here for. The additions to the BR mode are as follows:

1) There is a new throwable item called the Junk Rift. It creates a rift in the sky that objects fall out of the sky and destroys things they land on. When thrown it breaks on contact with something (hopefully another player). It generates two types of damage.

Direct Damage – It does 200 damage to players and knocks them back a little.

Shockwave Damage – This causes a small damage radius that does 100 damage and immediately destroys vehicles and destructible objects.

The Junk Rift has Epic Rarity and max stack size of 4. it will be available from Floor Loot, Chests, Supply Drops, and Llamas.

2) Glitched Consumables: appear at the explosion site (explained below) and randomly switch between forageable items. The following items are included:

Shadow stones were supposed to be included as a Glitched Consumable but had a bug and have been removed.

The Rift Beacon at the Rec Center has malfunctioned, which has caused an explosion and crater. This is where the Glitched Consumables spawn.

There has been a change to the Green Toy Wrap which means players can get a refund on the Toy Soldiers Wraps bundle if they do not like the changes. Players have 30 days from their next login to get this refund.